Cotton-picker head



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Patented Apr. 8, 1924., Y

TAYLOR J. sivrrrr-r, or nnroncrrv, esonera COTTON-PICKER HEI-LD.

Application led .Tune 15, 1922. Serial No. 568,668.

To all whom t may concern.'

.Be it known that l, TAYLOR J. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union City, in th-e county of Campbell and I State of Georgia, have inventedV certain useful mprovements in Cotton-Picker Heads, of which the following is a specification.v

This invention aims to VprovideV novel means for preventing the slowing up of the rearward movement of the cotton in a cotton picker of that type shown in my prior Patent No. 1,373,983.

ln the drawing. Figure 1 shows, in side elevation, a picker embodying the improvements claimed hereinafter; Figure 2 is avertical longitudinal section; Figure 3 is a vertical horizontal section on the'line o-'b of Figure 2.

Referring briefly to parts shown in my prior Patent No. 1,373,983, the device comprises a casing 4 provided with a handle 5, one end of the casing being connected to a suction conduit 6, the other end=of the cas-V ing being supplied with an opening 7 through which the cotton enters, there being guides 8 on the casing at each side of the opening. Draft slots 9 are formed in the casing 4 and are controlled by dampers 10. An upper driven shaft 11 and ay lower driven shaft 12 are journaled in the casing 4 and are connected by gears 14. The upper shaft 11V is operated by a shaft 15 in a casingr16. The shaft 11 carries a pulley 17 and there is a pulley 18 on the shaft`12. A pulley 19 is journaled at 2O on the casing 4. A first lever 21 is provided and has ears22 whereby the lever is fulcrumed on the shaft 12. There are ears 23 on the lever 21, wherein a shaft 24 is -mounted The shaft 24 carries a pulley 25. A first belt 26 is engaged about the pulleys 17 and 19, a second belt 27 being engaged about the pulleys 25V and 18. A shaft 28 is journaled in the casing 4 and has a crank 29 operating in a guide 30 on the lever 21. The shaft 28 is Operated by anl external handle 3.1. A spring 32 is connected to the handle 31 and to the casing 4 and tends to raise the lever 21 and the pulley 25 so that the forward portions of the belts 26 and 27 are in contact as shown in Figure 2. The cotton to be picked is caught between the forward portions of the belts 26 and 27 and iscarried rearwardly into the field of the vsuction conduit V6. Through the instrumentality of the handle 31, the forward end of the lever 21V may be swung downwardly by an operator, thereby spacing the forward portions of the belts 26 and 27 for thereception of the cotton therebetween. All of the foregoing parts are shown and described in my prior lpatent hereinbefore mentioned.

Passing to the improvements which characterize the present machine, it has `been claimed by some that when a large lump of cotton enters between the forward portions of the belts 27 and 26, the'rear portions of the belts are spaced apart, the result being that the rearward movement of smaller wads of cotton (which happen to-be to the rear of the clogging or choking of the machine resultpulleys-19 and 25) is checked,

ing. ln order to remedy this alleged short- Y coming, a support 1 is mounted in the Vsides of the casing 4 to the rear of thepulley 25,

arms 2 being fulcrumed intermediate theirV end-s on the support 1,Y the outer ends of the Y arms being pivoted on the shaft24, andthe Y.

inner-ends of the arms carrying'a shaft 33,

supporting a roller 3 for rotation, the roller being located between the upper and lower runs of the belt 27. When the .pulley 25 moves downwardly, the arms 2 will tilt, the roller 3 being raised, and the upper run of .the belt'27 being flexed, the friction on the cotton between the belts 26 and 27 being increased, and there being no appreciable' slowing of the ,rearward movement of the 'l cotton. The parts 1,` 2, 33 and 3'may be'Y alluded to generally as a second lever .fulcrumed intermediate its'ends on the casing 4, one end of said lever being represented byV the roller 3. p

I claim: l A 1. In a cotton picker, a casing, a first belt Vvin the casing, means for supporting the belt formovement, a second belt cooperating with the first belt, means for carrying one end of the second belt, a first lever fulcrumed onthe casing and carrying the othervr end of the second belt, and a second lever-V fulcrumed intermediateits ends on.. the casing and located within the second belt, one

Vend of the second lever being pivoted to the first lever, and the other end ,of the second lever'cooperating with that run-ofv the sec- Vond belt which is adjacent to the rst belt,

to flex said run when the first lever is tilted.

`2. Inra cotton picker, a casing, a first belt 1 inthe casing. means for supporting the belt for movement, a second belt cooperating with the firstV belt, means for carrying one enel of the second belt, a lever fulei'umefl en whereby when the lever is tilted, the roller the easing and carrying the other end of the will lex that run of the second belt which second belt, en arm mounted intermediate its is adjacent to the rst belt. 10 encls to swing on the easing, e roller jour- En testimony whereof I affix my signature 5 naled on one end of the arm and located. behereto.

tween the runs of the second belt, the other end of the arm being Vpvoted. t0 the lever, TAYLOR J. SMITH. 

